Sunday, July 02, 2006

Chest health - Don't let friendships slip away 


Don't let friendships slip away 
My old friend Dick Morris died last week from lung cancer. He used to smoke Camels. A childhood friend, he played clarinet better than me, marched in the band, was a winning pitcher on our state champion baseball team and went to Southern Illinois University in the fall of 1966 with me.

Bid to prove lung cancer drug works 
A memorial fund set up by an asbestos widow has given researchers 100,000 to pay for more tests into an anti-cancer drug which eases suffering.

Thistle drug blocks lung cancer in mice 
Silibinin, a drug derived from milk thistle, destroys lung cancer in mice, investigators in the United States say. -